The XMC/PMC-550 is offered in both XMC and PMC form factor versions and is ideal for use in legacy and latest rugged deployed applications. The XMC/PMC-550's standard Serial ATA interface makes it possible to integrate it into VME VPX, and CompactPCI systems.

It is designed for applications that require large quantities of media storage in harsh environments where operation while subjected to shock and vibration are critical, such as aerospace and defense applications.

According to Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, the XMC/PMC-550 NAND Flash solid state drive provides up to 32 Gbytes of disk space in an XMC (VITA 42.3) or PMC (IEEE1386.1) form factor.

It is available in configurations of 8, 16, or 32 Gbytes, and is visible to the system as two independent SATA drives. Using multi-tasking technology, the XMC/PMC-550 delivers data transfer rates of up to 30 Mbytes/sec for simultaneous read to each drive.

The XMC/PMC-550 also comes with RAID 0 support that stripes data across the two independent SATA drives for maximum performance. With RAID 0, the 550 can achieve read transfer rate of up to 50MB/s

The card supports industry standard ECC NAND Flash correction. Error correction codes can correct up to 8 random single-bit error per 512-byte sector.

It also supports wear leveling that spreads program/erase cycles evenly across the media to mitigate premature device failure due to frequent erase cycles on the same block of Flash memory. The XMC/PMC-550 can also support hardware write protect as an enhanced level of security to prevent unintentional data overwrite.

The XMC/PMC-550 is interoperable with most host and carrier cards that feature support for XMC or PMC cards for popular operating systems, including VxWorks, and GPPLE Linux.

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